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I dislike having skittles and jellybeans in the house, because as quickly as I can we no longer do. And then I feel bad.


I am not sure if this is very good, or apocalyptic


Seems @flockingbird is taking up the challenge of building a “#fediverse #LinkedIn.”



TIL that my instance advertises its block list and block reason.

Lol - the number of times I just put "Fuck 'Em" in there.

Though the one time I just used "vibes" is pretty funny

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Hypolite Petovan
@Jonathan Lamothe (he/him) ❌ Ah, it's different. Having a logged-in only display of node-level individual account blocks, maybe not as a list but as a mark on the locally stored profile would be worthwhile.


I just realized that my 392 word message to someone could be summed up by the line "GM killed me but was mean about it, so I didn't enjoy our victory"

>.>


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silverwizard
No, it's a joke about that time we found random people's home directories in request paths, including a file called "Bears-rvb"


What did Mario and Princess Peach do to the turtles that turned them from persistent critters looking for ponds and turned them into such vindictive little creatures?
in reply to Becky

@Becky Koopa is the species, but the aggressive ones are Koopa Troopas, foot soldiers of the Koopa Troop under Bowser's command.


Made some time to make some stickers and a shirt inspired by @silverwizard that just say WTFM with a border


I care about building community, but holy cow is it hard when you have two busy littles and you only have time AND energy to post or read posts in short intervals like once every few days. Plus I keep liking posts with the intent to respond but then I get caught up with life and forget. It all gets a lil intense sometimes
in reply to Becky

I don’t have children and find keeping up difficult enough. I’m sure you’re doing an amazing job, I take my hat off to you. I don’t think I could manage!
in reply to Lilly

@Lilly :infinity_rainbow: @Becky These days, it's been very difficult to keep up with it, I had to curb my timeline not to feel bad about missing on posts.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

I'm glad it's not just me who's feeling it ❤️
in reply to Becky

Not that I want you to be stressed too or anything


I'd be a lot better at logging into things if I ever remembered to spell Silver correctly
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Slicerwizard sounds like a star wars hacker Jedi
Slverwizard and silerwizard are the common bad errors


Doomer Shit

I've been listening to a lot of anarchist music recently - and the amount that it reminds me of when I was deeper in Christian Anarchist spaces. And I miss it so much.

I really hope that things last long enough I can bring my kids into that space.


in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard The clarification is even funnier to me than the original attempt, which was also funny to me.
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silverwizard
One day I will finally watch Full Metal Alchemist and get this joke



I bet #rpg #ttrpg probably need this since indexing is super important there!


so obviously i'm sad twitter died, mainly because i got a lot of my indexing jobs that way, so if you need to have a book indexed, hire me! (please reblog this academics)

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Drinking whiskey from a mason jar, causing a prod outage, and playing Blades in the Dark, while sitting in front of 3 computers

The full Sean experience



My son just grabbed me and said "You're mine forever!"

So I'm gonna be over here, killed by joy



Being a vegetarian is weird because I often forget I am a vegetarian, but everyone acts like I talk about it too much
in reply to CJ the Awkward Lefty

It's mostly that I think people who aren't vegetarian feel judged by vegetarians, so when they find out they get super defensive and then it's weird
in reply to silverwizard

I've heard that before. Ian Danskin (Innuendo Studios) has a great old video on why people get weird around people who live differently to the mainstream and he also concludes that they feel judged by the existence of people who chose a different path from them.



Amazon did an obvious thing after only 20 years!

This is, I admit, better than I expected


@HippyWizard @awscloud You can now have more than one #MFA Check out the feature announcement here aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…

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#MFA


Ug - I need to play Kings Quest 8 and the rest of the Monkey Islands


Fuck you bitbucket! I win this round!

Some fucker listed the public key for our keys as a "secured variable", so I can find out which public key the repo is using and I can't see it in outputs!

So if I add the keys to a file, then cat the file, bitbucket is clever enough to mask the key!

So I just got the repo to list all the public keys for the deployment account - and it masked the public key it was using!

FUCK YOU BITBUCKET! SPITE IS GOING TO WIN!

Also - BitBucket entirely did the right thing here - whoever setup the repo was BOONKERS



Anyone have any advice for a #HomeLab #LDAP server?

I think I am getting to the point that I want my local resources to have SSO

I'd especially appreciate advice on having two endpoints so that I can have failover easily enabled

in reply to silverwizard

Authentik aims to be a one stop solution as it comes with LDAP built in plus OIDC. That said it's fairly unproven in larger deployments so the code isn't battle tested unlike say FreeIPA. Lots of folks use it in #homelab and are happy with it. Personally I've got FreeIPA setup and will be deploying authentik later.
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silverwizard
Yeah this seems super Linux centric, but thanks for the tip, maybe it'll run more portably than that


My first rule of sysadminning:
If someone forgets to do something important two weeks in a row, that wasn't their fault, that was the system designer's fault

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I got to learn about how connecting over cable to the internet worked tonight with the power level indicating 1s and 0s very very quickly, how packets can be confused and how tcp and udp work from @silverwizard .... but then I asked the age old question: how does wireless work

And friends, let me tell you that I'm amazed it works at all but also... why did I need to ask, because I think I'm more confused now, at the same time.... like I think I understand it in theory but uh, I feel like my theory of wireless must also be wrong because uh... wut

in reply to unfunk

Sometimes I get hit by curiosity, but sometimes I regret getting it lol
in reply to Becky

yeah I feel that. Hence setting my own limits hahaha



I don't use mastodon so I'm not sure, but I think the zeitgeist is that everyone took the plums out of the icebox because they won't perish because they published?

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Federated SomethingAwful where whenever you follow a thread on another instance you need to pay the admin ten bucks


The worst part of testing the new "Delete everything associated with this account" script for the first time with prod data is that if it fucks up, there goes the prod data.

I tested it a whole bunch in staging and a dev environment though?

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Fediverse instance that picks and chooses who it talks to, so only certain people can see its posts, everyone else can't see it, hosted at Polka.Ru

#TVOkids

in reply to Kicou

You might not have Polkaroo deep in your veins since you're not an Ontario kid and your kids are younger than Polka Dot Door
in reply to silverwizard

My kids don't even know what TVO is. They grew up without cable and commercial breaks.
in reply to Kicou

I also grew up without cable - but uh - OTA TV ;)

Shæ has seen Polkadot Shorts on youtube and therefore kinda knows TVO Kids. And knows Polkaroo from his later days after he learned to speak.

in reply to silverwizard

Do - Polkadot Door was a #TVOKids original for mostly toddlers and it had a budget of approximately "Anything you brought to work with you" and so had ~4 actors, probably 3.

And two were not in costumes all day, and one was. But uh... Polkaroo (the polka dotted green kangaroo that was the show's mascot) needed an actor. So literally the male host would dress in the costume, show up, do the scene with the female host, and then leave, then walk back on without costume and be like "Polkaroo was here?! I missed him again?!"





On the left hand side of our home page is a pull down menu of the 180+ publishers whose products we carry, and clicking the logo on their publisher page will take you to their website, where they should have links to places you can find them.

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This weekend I invented a thing, that probably dozens of people have invented

Step 1) Make bread dough
Step 2) proof the dough
Step 3) take a slice of cheese and cut into 3 pieces
Step 4) wrap a little bit of dough around the cheese
Step 5) cook ~20 minutes on ~350F

Becky calls them Cheese Volcano rolls



Ok - everyone - calm down
Mastodon DMs are more secure than twitter DMs.

Also - having a direct message functionality is useful.

If you are so scared of your admin please contact me at silverwizard@convenient.email and I'll help you find an abandoned bomb shelter to live in surrounded by MREs and you can curl up in the fetal position and weep without needing to pollute conversations with people who know the words "threat model".

in reply to silverwizard

Sorry, I'm in a bad mood, and I've seen multiple people suggest removing mastodon's DM functionality *today*.

Friendica's DM functionality is, of course, perfect and has no problems



grep: memory exhausted

Great - glad to find out that we only have a few files



Accidentally tarpitted prof's office hours by asking a question about one of the assignment problems. Turns out the obvious approach gives a non-physical result and he can't figure out why.

This sort of thing just follows me around, I'm not trying to cause trouble, I swear.

in reply to Dave

I am curious what a non-physical even means in this context?
in reply to silverwizard

Does not follow the laws of physics. In this case, the electric field has a nonzero curl even though there are no changing magnetic fields, which violates Maxwell's Equations.

(If any physics nerds want details, I can give a description of the problem and why the result is non-physical, but I'll hold off on that until somebody asks.)

in reply to silverwizard

Different body of work. The daemons prefer the habitat on the thermodynamics side, this is E&M.
in reply to Dave

Based on what the prof said today, it sounds like I accidentally tarpitted his whole day, not just office hours.

In summary: The answer key for the textbook he got it out of has the naive, non-physical solution. He and the TA got far enough to confidently say that the correct solution is absolutely not an undergrad E&M problem.



How does Subnautica not have a mod where everyone in the game is Adrienne Barbeau?!


Thinking about my middle name, which I passed on to both my kids, since my partner passed on his last name... but it feels really perfect that I have this middle name which can be passed on, used as a backup name or primary or placeholder name if my kids ever decide they hate their (more gendered) first name. I love that it kind of works in all these ways (plus it can make your first name an adverb for better or worse)

My middle name is Leigh




Cw covid19, isolation and other associated costs

The isolation that comes with the pandemic at this point in time is unlike the times before it. I'm not enough to support my partner on my own and vice versa. We're both feeling dejected and trying our best but anyone who might have been safe before to let in our group no longer is, because they've all decided that covid might not be that bad



How did it get so late and why am I so resistant to the idea of laying in bed to sleep where I'm alone with myself to ruminate on my stress points?

(I think this is what kept me up all night in high school)



I did some #Art tonight, and while I feel like I'm no professional, I still like sharing

Dabs of paint in different colours with two flowers and a bird drawn overtop

#art
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Becky
Thanks ❤️